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Title:

Jews and the making of modern German theatre / edited by Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Theater--Germany--History--19th century.
Theater--Germany--History--20th century.
Jews in the performing arts--Germany--History.
Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Other Authors:

Malkin, Jeanette R. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91046499
Rokem, Freddie, 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85113779

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : break a leg! / Jeanette R. Malkin -- Reflections on theatricality, identity and the modern Jewish experience / Steven E. Aschheim -- How Jewish was Theatre in imperial Berlin? / Peter Jelavich --- Stagestruck : Jewish attitudes to the theatre in Wilhelmine Germany / Anat Feinberg -- Yiddish theatre and its impact on the German and Austrian stage / Delphine Bechtel -- German and Jewish theatromania : Theodor Lessing's Theatre-Seele between Goethe and Kafka / Bernhard Greiner -- Arnold Zweig and the critics : reconsidering the Jewish contribution to German theatre / Peter W. Marx -- Jewish cabaret artists before 1933 / Hans-Peter Bayerdoerfer -- Transforming in public : Jewish actors on the German expressionist stage / Jeanette R. Malkin -- The shaping of the Ostjude: Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin / Shelly Zer-Zion -- Max Reinhardt between Yiddish theatre and the Salzburg Festival / Lisa Silverman -- Theatre as festive play : Max Reinhardt's productions of The merchant of Venice / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- The unknown Leopold Jessner : German theatre and Jewish identity / Anat Feinberg.

Series:

Studies in theatre history and culture

ISBN:

1587298686
9781587298684

OCLC:

(OCoLC)432653963

LCCN:

2009035060

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)